Queen Macbeth - Literary Hub
2024年9月27日 · ‘That is my value to Lulach and to Malcolm. Macbeth taught me a game when he first came from Mull. He called it fidchell. It was a game of capture and conquest. The most …
Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid - Goodreads
2024年1月1日 · Queen Macbeth is a novella-length re-imagining of the story of Shakespeare’s second most famous duo - but based on the known history of the real 11th century Scottish …
Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid: an invigorating romp that …
2024年4月29日 · In her new book Queen Macbeth, Val McDermid takes on this formidable character in a reimagining of Shakespeare’s archetypal scheming wife. But McDermid’s …
Macbeth - Wikipedia
Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then racked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to …
Book Review: “Queen Macbeth” by Val McDermid
2024年10月4日 · Book Review: “Queen Macbeth” by Val McDermid. When we think of the name Macbeth, we often imagine the play by William Shakespeare of a power-hungry man and his …
‘Macbeth’ Decoded. Part Five. The Macbeths as Queen Elizabeth…
2011年10月19日 · The murder of the saintly King Duncan, when a guest in the home of the Macbeths, is a coded re-run of the execution of James’s mother, the bewitching Mary Queen …
A- #BookReview: Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
2024年9月25日 · She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth. As the net closes in, we discover a tale of passion, forced marriage, bloody …
Queen Macbeth - Historical Novel Society
Queen Macbeth. Written by Val McDermid Review by Simon Rickman. Gruoch, Macbeth’s widowed queen, lives secretly on a small isle in a lowland loch, inseparable from her three …
About Shakespeare’s Macbeth - Folger Shakespeare Library
Does Macbeth represent someone who murders because fate tempts him? because his wife pushes him into it? because he is overly ambitious? Having killed Duncan, why does Macbeth …
Queen Macbeth - Grove Atlantic
A radical, rip-roaring counternarrative, Queen Macbeth delivers an illuminating portrait of Shakespeare’s most famous villain, and the treacherous pursuit of ambition that made her …